That may all sound good until one clicks the link and reads the full NJDEP release. Why is Christie seemingly making a big deal about spending NJ taxpayer dollars for research on something the federal government already feels is the result of “a naturally occurring disease cycle”?

The Christie Administration today directed additional state resources toward the investigation of bottlenose dolphin deaths along the coast of New Jersey that are part of what federal officials suspect is a naturally occurring disease cycle affecting populations of these marine mammals from New York to Virginia.

It seems fair to ask if Christie isn’t simply playing national politics here with an eye toward 2016 by putting tax dollars into an effort to do more research on what appears to be Dolphins dying from natural causes, as opposed to doing anything to stem an exploding murder rate in his own capital city.